“The salt industry remains committed to helping the UK keep moving this winter and is confident that the majority of our members’ local authority customers will receive their salt supplies in time for the winter and that all local authority customers will have received enough salt to cope with this week’s potential snowfall.

The summer of 2010 has seen an unprecedented demand for road salt from councils which have finally recognised the need to hold increased salt stocks following two severe winters. In order to meet demand and replenish depleted local government stocks across the country, the UK salt industry has...